I woke up yesterday morning to an email, an email I wasn't expecting. The email was from my school telling me tuition fees will be lowered starting now. The fees I paid at the beginning of this semester will be adjusted to a lower rate and the difference, the email said, would be deposited back to me. This is only possible due to California's Proposition 30 being passed, thanks to everyone ...

The California State University and University of California are globally known to be great examples of higher education systems. But with the constant shrinking of state funding resulting in tuition hikes, less classes, impacted majors and over crowded classrooms, the image and value of UC and CSU are deteriorating.

If you were to have attended a year at UC Davis in the 2011 to 2012 school year the cost would have been an ...